Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these things are recognized throughout the educational world. It is a question of their maximum application through slowly changing practice. And it must be remembered that there is no such thing as an educational process that teaches method in the abstract. Method works on and through facts as inseparably as energy exists through matter. Moreover, there is some intrinsic value in specific facts. Each aye has its environmental permancies: To learn of them, though the process he simply memorizing, is even necessary...
...prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend...
...himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere smartness and the convention of constantly calling a spade a filthy thing of stench infernal. She does, however, find it easier to commence than to close the psychological complications...
...Significance, the grand thing, is to have made Walt known as a natural force is known, by its unhurried yet manifest effects?by putting the reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly...
...they are journals of opinion, the opinion of their public, and their editorial pages are devoted to the spread of information. One of the perennial subjects upon which there is opinion in the news columns and facts in the editorial pages is "college education, is it it a good thing?" Every manufacturer of cheap automobiles, every successful chorus girl who has been promoted to the spotlight, and now the world's richest, straphanger feel capable of Litter dicta upon this universal topic...